I wrote a script that displays local and remote frontends status in conky and I would like to share it with you. I am just learning about scripting and this is my first attempt at variables i mostly just put stuff in that i could be typed type from shell with no variables or error correction so i learned a bit preparing this.

The instructions on how to use are in the comments of the file and this link should let you know about mythtv telnet and how to enable it.

The second screen shot shows how I use it combined with DemonBobs idea and conky mythtv recording status howto found here

I think it is pretty subtle considering how much I had to write in
order to enable a few lines in conky. Anyway, this was fun for me i hope people try it and let me know how it goes post back if you need any help i would be glad to help if you have any problems setting it up.

References

This is a How-To on using conky on any ubuntu box to view recording info on your backend. This is accomplised by install mythtv-status on the ubuntu box that uses conky. I've modified mythtv-status a little bit.